Savoi Nations
An oceanic archipelago far to the west of mainland Bysia, the Savoi Nations are a collection of Humans led by a council of elected chieftains.
Public Agenda
Preserving the stories and culture borne of their ancestors has been of the utmost importance since the founding of the Savoi Nations, which unified the disparate inhabitants in the face of uncertainty about the future and foreign influences. While its formation was pacifistic in nature, its existence has been marred by the demands of reality, forced to militarize in the face of a distinct and immediate foreign threat: the Kuran Empire.
With children being raised to die in what appears to be a war of annihilation, fatalist disillusionment has become a universal trait of the older Savoi peoples, while younger generations have grown up with the constant fear of invasion and self-destructive obsession with duty as the norm. Its government has recently copied certain unsavory aspects of their closest allies, the Vulkans, utilizing increasingly invasive and dehumanizing methods in the name of the greater good.
After several long decades, having driven out the Imperial forces from their territories, the island nation may finally be ready to go on the offensive. But even if they achieve victory without further descending into siege mentality, the Savoi Nations will not remotely resemble the bastion of ideological sophistication that it once laid claim to.
History
Formerly a loose confederacy of different tribes in the Savoi Ocean, the Nations have produced a proud and storied culture, and a united front against invasion. Since neither the Decian Kingdom nor the Remnant wished to cooperate with "tribal savages," the growing Savoi airfleet was welcomed by the North-West Bloc.
At war ever since the Kuran expeditionary fleets crossed the horizon, guns blazing, the Savoi tribes have found themselves fighting tooth and nail to hold the islands of their people. While the Savoi Nations may have lost hundreds of thousands of lives fighting the invasion forces of the empire, with the continued support of the North-West Bloc, its ancestral traditions - or at least a mild distortion - have survived.
In every major battle since joining up, Vulkan Republic naval and ground units have reinforced the Savoi en masse, and the arrival of jet-powered Appachian interceptors has only further tilted air supremacy in the North-West's favor. In return, license-built Airships such as the venerable Type 8 Kiamanu form a significant part of Vulkan Air Command, and allied research efforts have access to exports such as high-quality optics and pharmaceuticals.
Military
With a sophisticated, if diminutive, industrial base even before the formal creation of the Savoi Nations, compensating for a limited populace and geographic isolation required force projection. Savoi doctrine relies on fleets to cripple enemy invasions, so its largest naval vessels share more in common with fast battlecruisers or escort carriers rather than full-sized dreadnoughts and airship carriers. It is no surprise that escort airships were pioneered by the likes of the Type 2 Kiamanu and the Type 5 Manu, their victories against rated Kuran airships vindicating their advocates. While dogfighting may have changed over the years, the squadrons of skirmishers, interceptors, and strikers inspired by those crude flyers have remained as integral as the mightiest sky dreadnoughts of any worthwhile warfleet.
Fittingly for a people somewhat obsessed with light, the Savoi are the only reliable source of high-powered "light jars," and uniformly arm their airships with direct energy weapons. Though upscaling Mana crystals has been difficult, the latest models penetrate armor as well as repeating cannons. Besides lasers and starlight scopes, on the ground and at sea, most Savoi equipment is standard Vulkan fare. Dense Savoi jungles are unforgiving of the heavy landships preferred by the Decian Remnant and the Republic, favoring the lightweight landships used by the Savoi Nations.
Type
Geopolitical, State
Alternative Names
The Savoi Islands
Demonym
Tribals, Savs
Government System
Democracy, Representative
Power Structure
Confederation
Economic System
Market economy
Parent Organization
